To Live and Die in LA

To Live and Die in LA

In Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Together, they found them...sometimes at great personal risk. Now the award-winning true crime podcast returns, unraveling the baffling and tragic case that started Neil Strauss down the rabbit hole of true crime investigation, along with his wife and his neighbors, Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger, and concert violinist Ann Marie Simpson. To Live and Die in LA Season 2 is available now.www.livediela.com

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February 20, 2019 2 mins

To Live and Die in LA with Neil Strauss. Available now.

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From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. Rolling Stone contributing editor and New York Times best-selling author, Neil Strauss takes you inside the real time investigation into the disappearance of Adea Shabani, an aspiring actress and model who vanished without a trace from her apartment complex near Hollywood's famous Walk of Fame. T...

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February 28, 2019 28 mins

When a 25-year-old aspiring actress and model vanishes from outside her Hollywood apartment, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Neil Strauss finds himself at the center of the investigation. What happened to Adea Shabani?

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February 28, 2019 24 mins

Neil chases down the first big break in Adea's recent disappearance, but new information produces more questions than answers as several suspects emerge. A secret relationship is revealed.

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March 5, 2019 32 mins

 Surveillance video surfaces from the day of Adea's disappearance. Neil and Jayden begin to pursue the suspect from state to state.

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March 7, 2019 27 mins

Neil finds the apartment where the main suspect is believed to be staying, and prepares for a confrontation. New information surfaces, including a very disturbing video, making it possible to reconstruct the nightmarish weeks prior to Adea’s disappearance.

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March 14, 2019 37 mins

Everything changes after an unexpected turn of events. At a loss for words, only two come to mind...

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March 21, 2019 31 mins

A new witness emerges...with a shocking accusation.

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March 29, 2019 35 mins

Neil begins to see this case from another perspective as a new theory emerges.

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April 5, 2019 32 mins

One big break is interrupted by another. The LAPD break their silence.

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April 18, 2019 37 mins

Neil travels to Fort Morgan, Colorado, to attend the funeral, and discovers skeletons (and warrants) in the closet

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May 2, 2019 43 mins

Neil and Jayden uncover inconsistencies as they examine the bullet-riddled truck. Based on Google data, they retrace what could have been Adea's last day step by step.

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May 9, 2019 56 mins

In this special hour-long episode, Neil and Jayden follow the trail of evidence all the way to the burial site...and a new suspect emerges.

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In the season finale, Neil uncovers definitive answers. After more than a year investigating Adea's disappearance and murder, the truth will come out, but justice is in the hands of LAPD.

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Neil and Jayden, along with co-producer Alex, meet to walk through Adea's case from beginning to end - filling in gaps in the narrative, addressing key unresolved issues, and sharing even more information.

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In the midst of the Adea Shabani investigation, a 21 year old named Matthew Weaver went missing in Neil’s neighborhood. Listen as he and Jayden start putting together the puzzle pieces of a very strange story involving a car hanging off a cliff, a driver who’s nowhere to be found, and a disturbing cry for help that was never answered.

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May 6, 2021 2 mins

The award-winning true crime podcast To Live and Die in LA returns with Season 2, unraveling the case that started Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss down the rabbit hole of true crime investigation. Meet the team and get ready to join him on that journey on May 27th.

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May 11, 2021 3 mins

The award-winning true crime podcast To Live and Die in LA returns with Season 2, unraveling the case that started Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss down the rabbit hole of true crime investigation. Meet the team and get ready to join him on that journey on May 27th.

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May 13, 2021 3 mins

The award-winning true crime podcast To Live and Die in LA returns with Season 2, unraveling the case that started Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss down the rabbit hole of true crime investigation. Meet the team and get ready to join him on that journey on May 27th.

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The award-winning #1 true crime podcast, named by Associated Press as the best of the year, is back with an all-new case. On January 27, 2017, a 20-year-old college student named Elaine Park left her ex-boyfriend’s home in Calabasas. Five days later, her Honda Civic was found abandoned on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, not far from the home of Rolling Stone contributing editor Neil Strauss and his wife Ingrid. The two of them...

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